More and more Chinese bloggers are seeking for reliable oversea web hosting services nowadays.

I believe Godaddy, Dreamhost, Site5, BlueHost, HostMoster and other well-known providers are very happy these days. the mentioned hosting service providers are well known among chinese bloggers. Some of them even have chinese support team now. How bigger the chinese market is!!!

Why do Chinese bloggers become more and more interested in oversea web hostings? You may google "Internet censorship and regulation in China" to find the answer.

Chinese bloggers prefer the hosting packages with the following specials.
1.Dedicated IP.  If a site shares the hosting server’s IP, it is in a real danger. if the server hosting another site that contains information that violate the Chinese law, the server’s IP may be  blocked by the Chinese Internet censorship system(Well-known as "the Greate Fire Wall"). as a result of the censorship technology, Chinese people will never be able to visit that server directly any more. So, a dedicated IP will keep your site safer.
2.SSH. if the package support SSH, Chinese bloggers may use these hosting account as a secret and safe proxy to visit blocked oversea web sites, like wikipedia, technorati and many other very useful sites.

I’ve been using oversea web hostings for over three years. the first provider I used is Pair.com, which is very stable but with a high fee that I can’t afford. I move my sites to DreamHost after my experience with Pair.com. Now, I’m using Godaddy as my hosting provider. The price of Godaddy is low, and the service is good. You can find many coupon code/promotion code on the Internet. Just google "Godaddy coupon code" to find more.

Info3G.net重新开放，前一阵子由于主机空间问题，再加上备案风波，Info3G关闭了一段时间，现Info3G.net已找到一稳定空间，希望可以继续提供给大家可靠、稳定的Portable News。
Info3G.net提供基于手机和PDA的新闻信息，目前已收录70多家媒体的即时信息。

it sounds great, aha.

在B公司实习了一个星期了，就觉得像是回到了中学里。B公司老板台湾人李董，SIFLS老板台湾人梁董，一样的钟爱cost-down；在B公司早上7点起床，晚上8、9点回宿舍，回宿舍洗个澡，在空调下吹一会，这不跟SIFLS一样嘛？吃饭各部门时间岔开、食堂排队、有人发餐巾纸、两个大荤选一个、一份水果、这不就是SIFLS嘛！要数最像的，呵呵，还记得SIFLS的校服衬衫要怎么穿吗？塞到裤子里！！！！！！！！！！怎么台湾人都这样啊~~~~~~~~~
不管怎么说在SIFLS也呆了六年，也彻底体验到了台湾同胞的cost-down之利害，但是到B公司倒是有一种亲切的感觉，可能是跟SIFLS比较像的原因吧，虽然在学校的时候一直埋怨学校这儿那儿的缺点，不过到现在，在离开学校快四年的时间里，还怪想念学校的，对，反正在苏州，选个周末去学校逛逛（要避开招生办的人）。
第一天上班的时候kevin（曾在SIFLS任教，恩师&朋友）没上班，我打电话给他后他特地到公司来看了一下我，我和他果然在同一个办公区，意外的是还有一个SIFLS出来的老师zhu和我是一个部门的。他们都来5年多了，算资历很老的了，跟他们差距大咯！kevin甚至混到了regional director，就这样，kevin还敲了我一顿饭，看来第一个月的实习工资不保咯。
一个星期接触下来，感觉部门的氛围还是是不错的，但是，自从对自己的工作有了一定的了解后，觉得这可能不是我最想要的工作。。。to be continued(赶班车了)

因为info3g.net这个域名没有备案（也不打算备案），不想连累朋友的主机，遂暂时关闭Info3G，待另行寻觅一符合要求的国外主机空间再开放，给朋友们带来不便，请谅解。

This is some of my favorate passages of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005 at Stanford University.

Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.

Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Everything else is secondary.

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for more picutures of benq, please visit my flickr

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It takes a strong man to save himself, and a great man to save another.
坚强的人只能救赎自己，伟大的人才能拯救他人。

Get busy living, Or get busy dying.
忙活，或者等死。

Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
希望是美好的，也许是人间至善，而美好的事物永不消逝。

“some birds aren’t meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are just too bright…”
有一种鸟是永远也关不住的，因为它的每片羽翼上都沾满了自由的光辉！

“These walls are kind of funny like that. First you hate them, then you get used tothem.Enough time passed, get so you depend on them. That’s institutionalizing.”
刚入狱的时候，你痛恨周围的高墙；慢慢的，你习惯生活在其中；最终你会发现自己不得不依靠它而生存。那就是体制化。

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近来，由于一些不完善的制度，这边好多无辜网站都出了问题。具体原因就不明说了，大家心知肚明。

大约从一年前开始，我就不信任大陆的域名商了，陆续开始接触一些海外的域名服务商和空间服务商。最大的感觉就是自由。比方说你想从万网转出一个域名，那你就是自找麻烦，忙活了n天，还不一定能成功解锁。海外的域名商基本上没这个限制，这些东西都在你的控制之下。

我用的域名商主要是Namecheap.com，它是eNom的reseller，它的控制面板比较强大，也比较清晰明了，价钱也不贵–USD8.88，平均比国外便宜10来元人民币。还有一个就是GoDaddy，是世界上最大的域名注册商，价钱和Namecheap.com差不多，它有一个功能我很受用，Off_Site DNS Management。我有的域名是随主机一起买的（或送的），但往往主机商的域名控制面板不是很强，有很多限制，我一般就把这些域名的DNS转到Godaddy，用GoDaddy控制面板进行管理。你只需在GoDaddy注册一个用户，设置一下就行，totally free！最近Yahoo! Small Business的域名服务很火，促销比较多，大部分域名USD2.99/year。但是它的上家不怎么样。

最早用的主机商是Pair.com，口碑非常好，我只用过三个月（太贵了，用不起）。

近来要架WordPress，发现DreamHost不错，1 FREE domain registration; www.yourname.com; UNLIMITED domains hosted; 15 subdomains;4800 MB Disk, 120 GB Transfer;600 Mailboxes, 75 Shell/FTP Users，PHP/MySQL Support，这样的package用一个coupon code后只有USD24.40/year。速度不比国内的慢，只是控制面板不够人性化。但是有一点要注意的是,CPU使用时间不能超过40分钟，不过对一般的个人网站或BLOG来说，这足够了。我也创建了一个promiton code: ZFLIER。你在购买时使用这个code，你也能得到$24.40的优惠价。

freepgs.com提供近乎免费的php空间，只需一次支付3美元，你就永久获得100MB空间，3GB 流量/天，FTP/PHP/MySQL，支持绑定自己的域名。当然这个”永久”是相对freepgs而言，如果freepgs倒闭了，”永久”也就失去意义了。速度比DreamHost慢一些，成功架起WordPress 2.0。

昨天从keso那看到一个完全免费的静态100M空间，特别适合使用Blogger.com服务的朋友。www.sitesled.com

现在购买国外的商品和服务都很方便，只要有支持美元支付的信用卡就行了。比如中行的长城国际信用卡，招行的信用卡（现在大学生可以办的招行young卡也支持）。

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I am really pissed off at the internet infrastructure here. A few days ago, a technical forum hosted in Hong Kong was blocked. Now, websites that have not put on records yet will not easy to hosted in mainland. So, what’s gonna be? Internet will be under surveillance just like traditional media. Oops!
I have no confidence with those local hosting services, and I hate to be recorded. Until now, all my domains, e-mail services and hosting services have transferred to some oversea companies.
When can we enjoy the freedom of Internet?